Stienbarger v. Keever

This is a suit by the appellee to cancel a tax title to the leasehold interest in the oil and gas underlying 160 acres of land. This interest was sold to the State for nonpayment of taxes in 1934, and the appellant has acquired the tax title. The chancellor held the sale void and granted the relief sought by the .complaint.

The appellee relies principally upon a defect in the sale similar to the defects considered in Sorkin v. Myers, 216 Ark. 908, 227 S. W. 2d 958, and Davis v. Stonecipher, 218 Ark. 962, 239 S. W. 2d 756. In those cases it was shown that severed mineral interests were listed…